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Monday, 12 March 2012

QUESTION: It is very important that the young workforce prepares itself to meet the present day challenges in order for a country to achieve developed nation status. Do you agree with this statement? Write your opinion with reasons and examples to support it. the essay to be written should not be fewer than 250 words.

A developed nation can be defined as a nation which
has achieved stability in terms of its economic growth and security. In this millennium,
the most common criteria in evaluating a developed country includes its gross
domestic product (GDP), the per capita income, the level of industrialisation,
its amount of widespread infrastructure and also the general standard of
living. Malaysia as an under-developed nation is almost at its height in
achieving this benchmark. In accordance to this, the power of youth remains an
essential for all kinds of communal development generally, and this process
especially. Henceforth, it is absolutely agreeable to state that the young
workforce plays the key role for a country in its pursuit to achieve a developed
nation status based on the three factors; their origin from the latest
education system, the possession of the physical and mental vigour, and becoming
the apprentice for the continuation of the early generation’s aspiration.

First and foremost, it is crucial for
the young workforce of a country to prepare itself for all the inevitable
challenges during the nation development process as they are the assets for a
developing country to achieve higher nation status; developed country. The
first privilege that young people have is in the field of education, by which
they are born from the latest education system. To face the unavoidable
difficulties during the development process, it is important for a country to
generate a sky-high self-esteemed and skilful generation. It seems quite harder
with the former exam-oriented education system which focuses entirely on
intellectuality and ignores experiential learning, leading students to only
extrinsically value education and not intrinsically value learning. With the
introduction ofthe more recent ‘School-based
Assessment (SBA)’, the education system is set to be less exam-oriented. Moreover, the
establishment of talent school idea can develop the self-esteem of young
workforce in the future. Early prediction to the flow of the education system
in our country can be foreseen now. Thus, the young workforce should take this
opportunity and lead this country in the most appropriate way or otherwise the
developed nation status can only become as one of unachievable goals.

Furthermore, the youth has physical
and mental advantages to be met with the demand of a developed country. Physically,
young workforce has more strength to cope with the fast-moving world and the
increasing workload. They can work overtime for more outcomes in their field. Based
on a study conducted in 2009 on entrepreneurships, the average age for the CEOs
of medium-sized company has decreased from 57 to 45 since the past decade. This
is due to their physical advantages in handling long hours of meeting time
added with the increasing need to travel long distances frequently. Mentally,
newly graduate workers bring in new and fresh ideas as they are being more
productive, enthusiastic, committed and more innovative. In order to get
promotion or high-paid salaries, they can work well under pressure, have many ground-breaking
ideas and cultivate their ken. Many younger employees have more skills or
experience than older staff, which have been stuck in one area or unit for most
of their working lives. Besides, they are more adaptive to the modern workplace
and can be more readily moulded to a particular work style. As a result, they provide
the solution for the weakness of the past and therefore the development of the
nation has gone another step into a developed nation status.

The growth and development of a
country also follows the one simple rule not unlike all other growths; that it
begins from the bottom and then slowly progresses upwards step by step. In terms
of a country on the road towards a developed nation status, the transition
between the present generation and their apprentices holds the key factor for a
successful country growth. As the old carry their aspirations together in
building up this nation, the younger generation needs to be properly trained to
understand and absorb these sentiments so that the nation’s development will be
in line with the original set-ups planned by the pioneers of the country’
development. Ultimately, the developed nation status will become an easier goal
to achieve.

In final consideration, it really is important
for the young workforce to prepare themselves to meet the present day
challenges in order for the country to achieve the developed nation status. A
wise man once said, “We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled
but as candles to be lit”. Young people have their own flair which can help a
country to achieve higher nation status as a developed country. The problem now
is their talents are not being boosted enough. Thus, they are not prepared
enough to meet the future challenges which are seem to be more and more
difficult. Then, where we can find an independent generation which is needed in
making a further development to our country?

Friday, 2 March 2012

Every
month, quite a number of Sudoku puzzles have been solved by the members of Sudoku
Society in SMK Bijak Bestari. However, they need a longer time to solve the puzzles as the level of difficulties increases.

Sudoku
has 4 different levels which are easy, medium, challenging and difficult and it
can be solved by completing the grid so that every row, column and every
three-by-three box contains the digits 1 to 9. Despite there is a difference
between the minimum and maximum time for the members to complete the Sudoku in
each level, it is marginal with the biggest difference of only 0.69
minutes. Besides, the total number of puzzless solved by the society’s members
from January to October 2006 is 254. The numbers of Sudokus solved for every 2
months are inconsistent with the highest is between July and August which is 78
puzzles.

As the conclusion, anyone can
complete the Sudoku puzzle, even though they do not profoundly master Mathematics, as long as they
know how to solve the puzzle logically.

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Friends, could you be so much as the tiniest kind enough, to keep your blogssimpleandless fluffyandfloweryandcutieandcolourfullyandmushy-mushyand others? Please, i beg of you...

It really is hard, and I know you all knew it well as i know it too. To wait for long page loading time, experiencing lags during scrolling up and down and to squint your eyes to read some reallly nice typing fonts. Especially when using broadband that had reached its limit =p

There
is a lot of controversy about the generation gap between parents and children.
Do you agree that the older party must try to adapt with the young ones or vice
versa?

A Chinese
proverb said, “If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation”.
Yet to help the next generation is by narrowing the generation gap. According
to the Oxford Dictionary, generation gap is a difference in attitudes between
people of different generation. A generation gap occurs when older and younger
people do not understand each other because of their difference in opinion,
experience and nature. In order to
reduce generation gap, one party either the elder or the youth must be held
accountable. In this situation, the elders seem to be the one who should adapt
with the young one because they have more experience in life, have the power in
ruling their children’s life as well as they can pass on priceless lessons and
the children can learn from the past mistakes.

As the elders
have more experience in life, they ought to be more understanding. They have
been young and understand how the young feels whereas the young have never been
old. Parents must have the idea on how to approach children in the way of
entertainment, fashion, behaviour and so on. This does not mean that parents
have to do or be interested in something that is exactly the same with their
children. It is enough to be more understanding in the way they follow the flow
of latest trend, not just giving the black and white order to arrange and
manage their life. If the children consider their parents as a good listener
and advisor, they will surely tolerate with their parents’ thoughts and views.

Apart from that,
in any condition elders are often given power to rule or manage their children.
This is because elders are more knowledgeable
and can be rational in making decision. They will know how to manipulate
the youth to accept their opinions. This privilege is something that will play
important role to help elders to reduce generation gap. For example, parents of
course have the right to order their children as they wish, but still they must
have the strategy to ensure that the children follow their way of life without
putting pressure on them. At the same time, trying to consider the children’s
desire. Thus the children will not take it as a life domination but as parents’
love and that will prevent them from making their parents as their enemy.

The longer the
person lives, the more mistakes they will commit and the more lessons they will
learn. For those who are older, they have the priceless lessons to pass on to
the youth, to let the youth learn from their earlier oversight so that they will
not repeat the same mistakes. It is why elders should try to adapt with the
young one. Taking parents again as an example, they can guide their children in
order to prevent them from being totally influenced by bad culture such as in
music, clothing and food because it will give bad effect to individual and also
the future generation.

As the
conclusion, the generation gap is not a novel problem as it also happened among
the past generation. It occurs when the older and the young individual
contradict each other in their attitude. The fact is this problem can’t be controlled
if both of them can’t tolerate to each other. Thus, it is a best decision for
the elders to be creative in adapting themselves with the young people
otherwise the gap will become worst and there will be lack of respectful
towards each other. Do you think that you can live in a community with the
children who are dare to summon their own parents just because the parents have
thrown their Michael Jackson’s CDs?

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Parents of teen vandals be held responsible for their child's irresponsibilities. Do you agree?

...and here is our response. Be overwhelmed!

When parents are always trying to monitor their children's activities, should they be blamed if the children are still involved in vandalism because of many other external influences? Do parents have the abilities, time and opportunity to guard the children every time? The fact is that the parents also have their own difficulties which prevent them from having full control of their children. Instead of the parents, the mass media and peer influence play their own role in this negative phenomenon. Lack of self control of the teenager themselves also can lead to vandalism.

The mass media have great influence and strong impact and can hardly be avoided today. For example, some scenes from the films and dramas have elements of behavior related to vandalism and teenagers will see it as as something cool to follow as the scenes are perfectly done by the main actor. if the teenagers scribble some graffiti on school buildings' walls or break the public phones, it is the violent-like TV programmes that they watch are to blame, and not the parents who are said supposed to be there to watch over their children.

Teens learn from the world around them. Teenagers are usually easier to copy and become influenced by their peers as they spend most of their time at school or college with them. Thus, peers play a large part in the lives of youngsters and unknowingly replaces the family as the best partner for a teen social and leisure activities. As teenagers have various kinds of peer relations, there is a big chance that some among those people could influence all of them in a bad way.

The last reason why parents should not be blamed on teen vandals is because the lack of self control of the teenagers themselves which can also promote them to commit vandalism. Although teenagers are grown and nourished with advices from their parents, together with the virtues on what is right and wrong being taught since young, still the lack of self control will eventually lead them to vandalism. For instance, some teenagers just cannot stop themselves from enjoying the negative activities together with their friends although they already knew the risk, for they themselves willingly let immoral partners to influence them.

In the final conclusion, if the parents always do talk to their children and keep grounding them, but the children is still out of control, then what else can the parents do? Teens are manipulating people because they are not held accountable to their actions. They are smart and life is a game to them. If they keep doing wrong acts and people reward them for bad behavior, they will continue to do so. then someday they will say, " my parents take the blame for my actions. Why should I listen?" Thus, we do not want our precious generation to become like this in the process of raising a generation of proactive teenagers.

Name : Imran lutfi Bin Mohammad KhirDate of Birth : 9 January 1993Zodiac : CapricornHometown : Shah Alam, SelangorFavourite Song : I Am Near - Native DeenFavourite Quote : "And verily there is none for one except that of which he has put effort (upon it)"

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